Medicine on the Midway

Winter 2006

A publication for alumni, faculty, students and friends of the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division and Pritzker School of Medicine.

Features

The First Footprints(PDF)
Around 375 million years later, a missing evolutionary link between fish and land animals has resurfaced--in fossil form--thanks to paleontologist Neil Shubin.
By Catherine Gianaro

Molecular Medicine to the Rescue(PDF)
Six-year-old Lilly trades her pump for pills in one of the first cases of Type 1 diabetes management free of outside insulin.
By Katie Scarlett Brandt

Departments

Medicine off the Midway (PDF)
This year's AMA president-elect has more to offer the group than being the first president to hold a Pritzker degree. He also has an impressive history of advocacy.
By Katie Scarlett Brandt